This is an ongoing project that began as a way to keep my aging mother entertained.  I was doing a lot of plein air and one day I asked her if she wanted to tag along. She brought her sudoku, but out of the corner of my eye I saw her scribbling a drawing in the margins. She’d always been sporty, and as her athleticism changed, it kept that formerly very active woman engaged, and me calm.

She and I would regularly “go out to do a bit of sketching”.  It was a game of active stillness. Often with thermos and sandwiches. Always with a view. Even though the resultant collection is of the landscapes of my childhood, this project is more about the accumulated episodes of peaceful companionship, where time is recorded in the lines on sketchbook pages, and the backs of envelopes.